Program Annual Report 2015-2016 Term

Medical Systems Program This is the Annual Report of Hsu-Li Huang, IFMSA Medical Education Systems Program Coordinator for 2015-2016 Term. The report is issued on 1st July 2016, for 65th August Meeting General Assembly in Puebla, Mexico.

Summary of Report: The IFMSA Medical Education Systems (MES) Program is aimed at increasing student activism and advocacy in their faculties, ultimately to get them to obtain voting rights and a say in their faculty decisions and board. The end goal of this program, “to create a platform where medical students will learn about medical education systems and students’ meaningful participation in faculty decision making,” is consisted of 4 expected outcomes, as described respectively in the Program Impact Report. To achieve these goals, the IFMSA should play an active role on international, national as well as local level, in cooperation with the NMOs. In this report, Program Proposal, Program Baseline Assessment, NMO reports from MM16 and AM15, applications to Activities Fair for MM16 and AM15, MSI32 and MSI33, Policy Statements adopted in the past year, as well as the activities enrolled in this program in the past year are reviewed. In addition, statistics and analysis of the enrolled activities, the “potential activities”, the IFMSA Policy Statements, and TMET Trainers' Database are made. In conclusion, in the past year, we have significant impact on outcome 1, limited impact on outcome 2 and outcome 3, but little impact on outcome 4. Several recommendations are made for the future works on this program and program systems as well. Finally, please go to Annex 1 for the activities currently enrolled in this program, and to Annex 2 for other activities related to this program.

Most important achievements:  Established the “MES Program Enrollment Form”: https://goo.gl/BcuKpl  Established the “MES Program Activity Report Form”: https://goo.gl/v230OA  Established the “TMET Report Form” with SCOME Director: https://goo.gl/WRxLtx  Established the toolkit “Steps for Activity Coordinator”: https://goo.gl/vjivSo  Coordinating the TMET workshop in Pre-GA of MM16, as one of the enrolled activities in MES program.  Facilitating program related sessions of SCOME session during the MM16 and AM16.

Struggles encountered:  Difficulty in arranging time ability for online meeting with TOs. Solved by frequent but short period face-to-face discussions with the SCOME Director.

Recommendations for the next term(s):

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 Imagine what NMOs want and try to meet their needs. Sometimes, the NMOs do know what program system is and how to get enrolled. They just lack of motivation to do so.  Work closely and be in touch with the TOs, especially the SCOME Director and the VPA. The works will be much easier with their support.

Program Impact Report Program Structure The IFMSA Medical Education Systems Program is aimed at increasing student activism and advocacy in their faculties, ultimately to get them to obtain voting rights and a say in their faculty decisions and board. To achieve this, NMOs should organize training workshops for students to learn about different areas of medical education so they can know different types of teaching, learning, evaluation and assessment, the student’s role in medical education and the importance of feedback in this regard.

Once students have undergone training, NMOs should facilitate their activism by advocating for students’ rights, their voice and votes with regards to faculty decision and the collection and promotion of feedback among other students.

To achieve these goals, the IFMSA should play an active role on international, national as well as local level, in cooperation with the NMOs: International level  Through external representation, transnational projects collaboration, research on medical education and advocacy, IFMSA mainly works on the field of medical education systems based on global medical education guidelines and the IFMSA Global Policy on Medical Education that was approved in AM2014.  IFMSA considers the following documents as cornerstones: WFME Global Standards of Medical Education, Global Consensus for Social Accountability of Medical Schools, WFME/WHO Guidelines for Accreditation of Basic Medical Education, WHO Education Guidelines, and WHO Multi-professional Patient Safety Guide. National level  As medical education systems are fundamental issues of medical students worldwide, almost every NMO with an established Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME) or similar divisions related to medical education working nationally in the field of Medical Education Systems according to the NMO reports 2014 and 2015.  Through conducting projects, celebrating world days, organizing conference, implementing workshops and trainings, through policies and student representation on an educational, faculty or governmental level, NMOs try to improve their education system in various pathway. Local level

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 Decision-making processes in the field are medical education often take place at the faculty level, which specifically highlights the importance of local efforts and capacity building in this program.  Through conducting projects, conducting research on medical education and evaluating the quality of curriculum, local committees have limited methods and less influence on the entire systems than national organizations. However, while primary data collected from local committee is more available, meaningful student involvement is easier to achieve in local level as well.

Main goal and expected outcomes/impact Main Goal: The aim of this program is to create a platform where medical students will learn about medical education systems and students’ meaningful participation in faculty decision making. These skills will empower them to take a leading role and actively advocate their inclusion in decision making. This program also aims at reaching the global standard of medical education system and active students' engagement in decision-making.

The impact of this program should be measured by the achievement of the following outcomes:  Outcome 1: Educated and empowered medical students on medical education topics.  Outcome 2: Medical students’ participation in the quality assessment and evaluation of medical education in the faculties.  Outcome 3: Medical curricula are adapted to globally recognized medical education guidelines.  Outcome 4: The issue of Global Health is introduced and included in the medical curricula.

Before the end goal is achieved, several medium-term and long-term objectives are set:  Medium-term objectives: 1. Capacity building on issues relevant to Medical Education such as Assessment & Evaluation and Quality Assurance. 2. More experienced Medical Education trainers who will succeed in motivating the student body to raise their voice. 3. Representation on international level through policies adopted by IFMSA.  Long-term objectives: 1. Increased student engagement and advocacy in their faculties, ultimately to get them to obtain voting rights and a say in their faculty decisions and board. 2. Official collaboration with Medical Education organizations as well as various healthcare professionals and professional societies sharing a passion for Medical Education.

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Program Areas The types of Activities which are going to be summarized in this Report are based on the UN Classification as followed:  Education among specific societal groups. IFMSA provides education on health issues in most of the societal groups (peers, children, youth, adults, elderly, specified groups).  Advocacy, also called lobbying. Advocacy is the attempt to influence political decisions and policy. An advocacy strategy directly targets those responsible for respecting and protecting certain values and achieving specific goals within the society – the authorities. Advocacy strategies should be used for influencing policies on national and international level as well as to bring experts and externals back to our members to learn.  Campaigning is a combination of education and advocacy, is a way to raise awareness among citizens on certain issues. The general public is informed about the issue (educational aspect) yet at the same time, the more people know about the issue, the larger the pressure on government to handle this problem (advocacy aspect).  Research. The aim of research is to provide evidence for development of specific topics within the theme of the Program. Medical students and IFMSA should use research when delivering the change, evaluate impact and create opportunities for medical students in research while working together with academics and other stakeholders.  Fundraising for 3rd Parties means raising funds and resources with the aim of supporting an individual or a vulnerable group in tackling an issue. For example, many NMOs raise funds to support a cause for treatment of a child’s rare disease.  Operative work. NMOs may carry out operative work within their own community or country. Alternatively, an NMO can carry out operative work in other countries, notably developing countries, cooperating with local NGOs. This is called development assistance.

Questions to be answered 1. How many NMOs are raising projects related to different program areas? What is the proportion of in different regions? 2. Which NMOs are currently working on quality assurance? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions? Are these assessment of curriculum possible to be coordinated into a compared study in the future? 3. Which NMOs are currently working on meaningful students’ involvement? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions? 4. Which NMOs are currently working on advocacy? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions? Do they have similar goal on advocacy? 5. Which NMOs are currently working on students’ right? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions? 6. Which NMOs are currently working on non-formal education? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions?

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7. Which NMOs are currently working on research on medical education? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions? How many scientific competitions are raised by NMO each year? Are there any external scientific competition should be mentioned? Is it a trend to develop scientific poster fair in IFMSA? 8. Which NMOs are currently working on Global ? What is the region of these NMOs? Is the development balanced among regions?

Indicators  Outcome 1: Educate and empower medical students on medical education topics. 1. Participant feedback, including pre and post surveys on competency. 2. Number of IFMSA certificated Medical Education trainers. 3. Proportion of Medical Education trainers who continuously train medical students. 4. Number of training sessions following the Training Medical Education Trainers (TMET) Workshop Guidelines; the language and the number of participants are not restricted. 5. Knowledge gained in trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET. 6. Regional balance of trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET. 7. Number of workshops/trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET. 8. Number of participants in workshops/trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET.

 Outcome 2: Medical students’ participation in providing a standard high-quality assessment and evaluation system in medical schools. 1. Number of schools in which students engage in providing input to create a standardized high-quality assessment and evaluation system in medical schools. 2. Number and proportion of students who engage in processes of policy development and decision making regarding medical education. 3. Number and proportion of students who contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum. 4. Proportion of NMOs who has a student-oriented standing committee or organization specifically work on students’ participation in medical education. 5. Proportion of NMOs who advocate on the level of meaningful students’ involvement or students’ right.

 Outcome 3: Medical curricula are adapted to globally recognized medical education guidelines. 1. Size, integrity of the IFMSA database of global medical education guidelines.

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2. Level of students’ comprehension to globally recognized medical education guidelines. 3. Proportion of global medical education guidelines applied to activities of IFMSA Program. 4. Proportion of faculties who design and implement the medical curricula based on internationally recognized medical education guidelines. 5. Percentage of curricula consistent with globally recognized medical education guidelines. 6. Number of research papers regarding medical education submitted/published. 7. Number of medical curricula newly adapted to globally recognized medical education guidelines. 8. Proportion of NMOs who advocate on integration of internationally recognized medical education guidelines in the curriculum.

 Outcome 4: The issue of Global Health is introduced and included in the medical curricula. 1. Number of Global Health programs in medical schools introduced per year. 2. Growth of the number of schools with Global Health listed on the syllabus in medical curriculum. 3. Level of students’ comprehension to the concepts of Global Health as well as related issues. 4. Number of non-formal Global Health education medical curricula supported by medical faculties. 5. Number of NMOs who advocate for the integration of Global Health in the curriculum.

Approach  Review of the Program Proposal adopted MM15  Review of the Program Baseline Assessment  Review of NMO reports from MM16 and AM15  Review of applications to Activities Fair for MM16 and AM15  Review of MSI in the past year (MSI32 and MSI33)  Review of Policy Statements adopted in the past year  Review of the activities enrolled in this program in the past year  Analysis by both qualitative and quantitative methods

Summary of Statistics and Analysis Enrolled activities:

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 10 activities were enrolled under Medical Education Systems Program in the past year. These activities came from Africa (3), Asia-Pacific (3), EMR (2) and Europe (2). However, activities form Americas (0) were not received.  Most active NMOs were IFMSA-Pakistan (3) and SAMSA-South Africa (2).  Most of the activities were performed on local level (5), then international level (4) and national level (1).  All the 10 activities are consider to be “Education among specific societal groups” based on the UN Classification.

Distribution of activities Distribution of activities between the Regions between level

national Europe level 20% 10% Asia-Pacific Americas 30% 0%

local level EMR internatio 50% 20% nal level 40%

Africa 30%

Potential activities:  In NMO reports from MM16 and AM15, applications to Activities Fair for MM16 and AM15, MSI32 and MSI33, several activities regarding medical education systems were reported. These activities, which have not been enrolled in this program yet, are defined as “potential activities” in this Impact Report. If these activities are held again in the future and meet all the criteria regarding enrollment, they can apply for enrollment and be enrolled with the approving by the program.  31 potential activities were held in the past year. Most of these activities came from Europe (17); activities from EMR (7), Asia-Pacific (3), Americas (3) and Africa (1) were also received.  Based on the UN Classification, most of the activities were performed as Education among specific societal groups (16), than Campaigning (10), Advocacy (3), Research (1) and Operative work (1).

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Distribution of activities Distribution of activities between the Regions between the Types

Africa 3% Asia- Pacific Campaigni 10% ng 32% Operative work EMR 3% 22% Europe Research 55% 3% Advocacy Education 10% 52% Americas 10%

IFMSA Policy Statements  Currently, there are 53 active IFMSA Policy Statements, where 21 of them were adopted in the past year (i.e. during MM16 or AM15).  The analysis of all of the IFMSA Policy Statements adopted in the past year revealed that there are 1 policy statement directed to Medical Education Systems, which is o Widening Participation in Medical Education: increasing the number of individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds in , adopted on March 2016,  and 1 policy statement partially related to Medical Education Systems, which is o Global Policy on Medical Education, adopted on March 2016.

TMET Trainers' Database  The number of TMET Trainers is one of the indicators to Outcome 1: Educate and empower medical students on medical education topics. The information of all TMET Trainers are collected in this database: https://goo.gl/OlFYKp.  Currently, there are 142 IFMSA certificated Medical Education Trainers all over the world. Among them, 90 were trained in the past year.

Conclusions Outcome 1: Educate and empower medical students on medical education topics. Summary: Significant impact on outcome 1 in the past year, except on regional balance. This outcome is examined mainly based on the following 3 indicators: 1. Number of IFMSA certificated Medical Education trainers.

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2. Number of training sessions following the Training Medical Education Trainers (TMET) Workshop Guidelines. 3. Number of workshops/trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET. 4. Regional balance of workshops/trainings for medical education topics which include but are not limited to TMET. Nowadays, there are 142 IFMSA certificated Medical Education Trainers, and 90 of them were trained in the past year as is described hereinbefore. In the past year, we had 5 TMETs be held all over the world, and all these TMETs have been enrolled in Medical Education Systems Program. The number of workshops/trainings for medical education topics held in the past year is 21, and they were distributed in Europe (9), EMR (6), Asia-Pacific (4), Africa (1) and Americas (1). In comparison with Baseline Assessment, there were only 52 IFMSA certificated Medical Education Trainers. 4 TMETs had ever been held. 18 workshops/trainings for medical education topics were reported. The regional distribution of these workshops/trainings is: Europe (10), Africa (3), Americas (3), EMR (2) and Asia-Pacific (0). Based on these indicators, the achievement on this outcome is quantitatively significant. However, the regional balance should be evaluated as no significant difference between now and the Baseline Assessment.

Outcome 2: Medical students’ participation in providing a standard high-quality assessment and evaluation system in medical schools. Summary: Limited impact on outcome 2 in the past year. This outcome is examined mainly based on the following 3 indicators: 1. Number of schools in which students engage in providing input to create a standardized high-quality assessment and evaluation system in medical schools. 2. Number and proportion of students who engage in processes of policy development and decision making regarding medical education. 3. Number and proportion of students who contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum. In the past year, there are 13 advocacy or campaigning worked on this field. In comparison with Baseline Assessment, there were 12 activities worked on the similar field, including 10 activities on quality assessment of medical curriculum and 2 on meaningful student involvement. Based on these indicators, the achievement on this outcome should be evaluated as no significant difference between now and the Baseline Assessment.

Outcome 3: Medical curricula are adapted to globally recognized medical education guidelines. Summary: Limited impact on outcome 3 in the past year.

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The indicators of this outcome is mainly about medical education research conclusions and propositions, including: 1. Size, integrity of the IFMSA database of global medical education guidelines. 2. Level of students’ comprehension to globally recognized medical education guidelines. 3. Proportion of global medical education guidelines applied to activities of IFMSA Program. 4. Proportion of faculties who design and implement the medical curricula based on internationally recognized medical education guidelines. 5. Percentage of curricula consistent with globally recognized medical education guidelines. 6. Number of research papers regarding medical education submitted/published. 7. Number of medical curricula newly adapted to globally recognized medical education guidelines. 8. Proportion of NMOs who advocate on integration of internationally recognized medical education guidelines in the curriculum. This outcome is originally designed to examine the works on medical education research of faculties. However, generally speaking, these works are difficult to be reflected or presented in NMOs’ works. During MM16, an IFMSA Policy Statement, Global Policy on Medical Education, was revised and adopted. This Policy Statement is consider one of the cornerstones on Medical Education issues within the IFMSA. Taking the revision and adoption as a substantial progress, it should be consider as an impact on this outcome.

Outcome 4: The issue of Global Health is introduced and included in the medical curricula. Summary: Little impact on outcome 4 in the past year. Here, the following indicator is used to examine this outcome: 1. Number of NMOs who advocate for the integration of Global Health in the curriculum. In the Baseline Assessment, 8 activities related to Global Health Education are reported. However, in the past year, there were only 1 related activities held (i.e. Global Health Short Course), indicating that there was merely rare growth on this outcome.

Recommendations  Firstly, it will be better if we more actively encourage the NMOs to make their activities enrolled in programs. There are lots of powerful resources to find out what ideas and activities our NMOs already have, including but not limited to NMO reports, Activities Fair and MSI. In Annex 2, the “potential activities,” which means the activities related to this program but have not be enrolled, are listed. It will be great if we can contact the coordinators of the activities and ask them to join this program, in order to enrich the connotation of this program.  Additionally, I would recommend to create a strategy or a way to measure the impact which is not done by NMOs or medical students. Especially for the outcome 3 and

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outcome 4. Since the faculties will not initiatively inform us what they have achieved, it is necessary to find out the extra source of data.  Finally, the IFMSA should provide more benefits to attract the NMOs to make their activities enrolled. Frankly speaking, currently, the benefits which NMOs can get by enrolling their activities to programs are still limited. Sometimes, the reason that NMOs do not make their activities enrolled is not lack of knowledge to program system, but lack of motivation. This defect results in the number of enrolled activities is much lower than it actually is, which led to bias in Baseline Assessments and Impact Reports. It’s difficult to create more benefits with limited resources, but it’s still a problem which we have to face.

Annex 1: Table of enrolled activities Activities which were enrolled to medical education systems program in the past year. Name of the Type of NMO Region Level Description activity Activity The workshop sessions will include training sessions on important subjects like: teaching and learning, curriculum design, Educati IFMSA- Internat self-learning, assessment, & research. Teambuilding games and TMET EMR on Jordan ional energizers will help create a better environment for participants. But most importantly: The participants will be included in the facilitation of the workshop, as its aim is to create trainers. The TMET is consisted of training sessions on important subjects including teaching theories, curriculum development, life-long Educati FMS- Asia- Internat TMET learning, evaluation and assessment, etc. The participants will on Taiwan Pacific ional have to facilitate the workshop, in order to be certificated and become trainers. Financial Educati A series of workshops will be hosted by a financial advisor to SAMSA Africa Local workshop on equip students with skills to manage finance. Interactive workshops will be held by professionals to improve Forensics Educati forensic evidence collection and presentations as well as SAMSA Africa Local workshops on providing opportunities for medical students to sit in on forensic cases. Management Educati Free online management course available to all students with the SAMSA Africa Local course on option of qualifying with a certificate. TMET consists of 3 working days with different types of interactive activities and sessions. Through short presentations, group work and practice it educates and stimulates students to Training Medical Educati HelMSIC Internat become involved in their educational process and covers general Education Europe on -Greece ional medical education topics such as: teaching and learning, Trainers curriculum design, self-learning, assessment, research. The participants will be included in the facilitation of the workshop, as they are to become trainers.

TMET-Madrid Educati IFMSA- Europe Internat This TMET will take place in Madrid from April 7 to April 10, 2016.

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on Spain ional There will be 18 trainees and 2 international TMET trainers. For the sessions we will use a room provided by the Spanish Counsel for Youth. Here we'll have a comfortable room to develop this workshop. The accommodation will be the Mad Hostel (Madrid). Our Activity consists of the 4 following days: Day 1- The Symposium Day 2- The Medicine Meeting Day 3- Exam Experts Assembly- Guidance on Post Grad Exam Career Guidance Educati IFMSA- Asia- Preparation and Opportunities Local Colloquium 2016 on Pakistan Pacific Day 4 - CV Building Workshop along with a guide to Clinical Experience And an introduction to research methodology Plenary sessions with a few lines about each department in the beginning followed by direct interaction with the students to solve their queries. The workshop is aimed at training young medical students about Research methodology and how to initiate a project and carry on Undergraduate with its work till the process of Publishing. Educati IFMSA- Asia- Research Local 11th: First session (1 hour) on Pakistan Pacific Training 14th: Second session (1 hour) 21st: Third session (1 hour) 27th & 28th: Mega event (10 hours - 5 hours each day) Souk Camp: Educati LeSouk Nationa EMR A full day's training on medical education. TMET edition. on Algeria l

Annex 2: Table of potential activities Activities regarding medical education systems held in the past year, in review of NMO reports from MM16 and AM15, applications to Activities Fair for MM16 and AM15, MSI32 and MSI33. Type of Name of the activity NMO Region Description Activity Onda Sinapsis, the radio of IFMSA-Spain, is an online radio program produced by medical students for medical students. It all started with a few people concerned with the huge lack of knowledge regarding topics strongly bound to Medicine. The Operativ IFMSA - Onda Sinapsis Europe program is a perfect forum to raise concerns, topics, and debates e work Spain and speak up. Through debates on medical education (e.g. teaching methods) and other topics, they aim to create a critical spirit among Medical students and raise concern about World Health problems and society topics strongly related to Medicine.

Local Committees: The aim was to get students and professors to discuss how to apply Campai DENEM America A Space for the curriculum in full, and debate the quality of the health gning - Brazil s Curricular Reform professionals formed by the faculty. Participants evaluated the curriculum, thought about the challenges, mistakes, and wise

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choices made since, and to come up with ways to improve the applicability of the curriculum. The conference was so successful that it became a yearly event on our calendar; with its sixth edition taking place this year. This project aimed to have students who are active in the decision making in their schools, playing their roles as major stakeholders of Associa Let's Evaluate our Campai their own education. To reach that goal, they built on the results of Med - EMR Curriculum! gning the evaluation provided by the website to advocate for the Tunisia integration of medical students in the process of curriculum development. As a passionate fighter for medical education, it is very important to set up a program where students are allowed to work with the Educatio KuMSA We are the Change EMR administration. That is why KuMSA created ‘Aspiring to be,’ a n - Kuwait program purely designed to focus on the students’ opinions on their education system. GMSA planned to become SCOME-active, got actively involved in Medical Students' international, regional and local activities in Medical Education and Involvement involved in the development process of a project which would form a Prospects in Educatio GMSA - network uniting medical schools, organizations ensuring quality Europe Medical Education n Georgia education, experts and most importantly medical students from Quality Standards various countries, with IFMSA as the core of the proposed Ensuring Process developmental/research project which will serve to the benefit of medical students worldwide. Creating an environment in which students can focus on their interests and strengths is the most important, and this is actually what SCOME provides medical students with. This type of activities proves that loving medicine is more than achieving good grades, it’s Medical Education Advocac IFMSA - EMR about living for medicine, and about defining medicine by your own Advocacy y Jordan words and trying to make it special every day. Medical students are usually attracted to clinical-based methods of teaching and they like meeting patients because every patient they encounter has something to teach them in an unforgettable way. It targets all medical students willing to participate. Number of SaMED - Medical Campai BoHeM Europe participants were over 200. Congress was very well received with students’ congress. gning SA international participants from 12 countries. annual Luxembourg Educatio ALEM Europe Information for future students. City Students Fair n - Objectives: To facilitate a discussion about national learning outcomes with the faculties of medicine and students. The national - Target group: Medical students in Norway and the medical conference on Campai NMSA Europe faculties. medical education gning - Number of participants: 55 2015 - Outcomes and indicators: The conference ended with the students’ unanimous support for creating national learning outcomes. We gave several recommendations for how the process should

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continue, and what the learning outcomes should contain. While we got the impression that the faculties valued our contribution to the discussion, it’s still too early to evaluate the effect of the conference. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] Campai Le Souk A club for formal debate on medical education issues and medical Souk Debate Club EMR gning Algeria ethics. - Objectives: Resolve all the mystery and complication of career pathway. Help medical students and post graduates to choose their future career in medicine the best way possible. - Target group: 1. Medical students (semifinals and finals). Career Advice Educatio MedSIN Africa 2. Newly graduated students. Conference n -Sudan - Number of participants: 268 + the OC (30) - Outcomes and indicators: raise awareness of medical students of all types specializations and their requirements so they can choose what is suitable for them, and then focusing their studying on it early, which will create a future professional doctors. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: Motivate and guide school children in training about options, teaching them that the most effective way to get into is perseverance and study Motivational - Target group: School Children Workshop “I want to Educatio FEVES America - Number of participants: 100 be a doctor when I n OCEM s - Outcomes and indicators: Participation and interest of children to grow up” study medicine, recognizing the rewards and gratification offered to be doctor and save lives. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: Raise awareness among medical students and general population regarding the increase on the tuition fee paid monthly on private med schools in Brazil. - Target group: Med students. Not the abusive Campai DENEM America - Number of participants: It was online, so we do not have this increase in tuition gning -Brazil s information. - Outcomes and indicators: During one week, many people got aware of the private med schools issues, reported on social media. - Email of Activity Coordinator: Do not apply. - Objectives: To provide the information about program in US and UK International IFMSA- - Target group: Medical Students Educatio Asia- Residency Thailan - Number of participants: 243 n Pacific Conference 2016 d - Outcomes and indicators: Very good response from the audiences/ By questionnaire - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected]

Medical Education Educatio FMS- Asia- - Objectives: To make med students familiar with medical education

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Week n Taiwan Pacific issues - Target group: All medical students (mainly around 1st-4th grade) - Number of participants: 500 - Outcomes and indicators: survey feedback satisfaction above 4 (5- score scale) - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: 1. To increase knowledge and insight of medical student and general practioneer by understanding the medical profession field. 2. To describe job opportunities and introduce medical student to future career choices or other choices of further study after they finish their undergraduate degree. 3. To strengthen motivation of medical students who make creation in medical profession field. - Target group: Medical Students of Indonesia - Number of participants: 355 - Outcomes and indicators: Medical Profession 1. Medical students provided with a framework that they can use to Educatio CIMSA- Asia- and Beyond understand more about their choice of career in medical profession n ISMKI Pacific (MedProbe) 2015 and other choice of study after they finish their undergraduate. 2. More than 300 medical students participating in Medical Profession and Beyond 2015. - Indicator: Feedback from the participants about their choice of career in medical profession by filling our survey. According to a survey that was conducted by MedProbe OC in June 2015, 80% of 400 medical students in Indonesia chose to be a specialist for their next career’s step. The presentation for medical students who want to work in governmental organization is 11%. The medical students who want to focus on research only accounted for 4%. Only about 2% of the responders who want to have a career as a lecturer. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: Clarify the new path of medical studies and the reform of our medical education for medical students. Actually, the government decided to change the system of medical education in the country in order to get the accreditation before 2023, but “Et maintenant on Educatio Associa students didn’t know a thing about it. The dean and an expert in va ou?” = “Where EMR n -Med led a conference about it. do we go now?” - Target group: Medical students. - Number of participants: 100. - Outcomes and indicators: Number of participants and feedback. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: 1. Clear out some misconceptions students might have Educatio SCOME in Schools LeMSIC EMR 2. Introduce high-school students to different systems and n , and presenting the affiliated to each university 3. Provide high students with required information about the examinations required to join each university

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4. Explain the different systems and giving advantages and disadvantages for each 5. Give an idea about curriculum of each university - Target group: High school students interested in pursuing a career in the medical field - Number of participants: Around 65 SCOME members. - Outcomes and indicators: 1. Students felt the session cleared many questions about (different systems, tuition fees and financial aid, application process) 2. Students appreciated the forum created that gave them an opportunity to get in touch with current medical students and ask for their unbiased advice. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] This event was aimed at all medical students from year1-5 from all four medical universities in the UAE. The objective of the event was to educate and guide students as to the procedures for applying into international residency programs in different countries around the world. We also Educatio medical graduate EMSS EMR gave interview tips, tips on writing a good cv and then held sessions n (IMG) by students who have already passed these exams so they gave tips on studying and time management. The event was a huge success and attracted interest from many doctors, etc. and hopefully we will improve and have this event again this year. - Objectives: It is an opportunity to listen interesting lectures of the greatest teachers from Bogomolets National Medical University and not only. We create #MedLectorium with initiative teachers who really want to teach and share their knowledges, and students who Educatio are willing to learn new things. MedLectorium UMSA Europe n - Target group: medical students. - Number of participants: more than 100. - Outcomes: popularization of educational lectures among students and engaging professors in production of better quality lectures. - Email: [email protected] - Objectives: In which we make conferences and workshops on FASMR various medical fields. This activity it takes place in all local NMOs' Medical Education Educatio - in different periods. Europe Days n Romani - Major objective: promoting medical education. a - Target group: all medical students - Email: [email protected] - Objectives: reform the medicine studies in Germany - Target group: our job: advocacy. Make the reform plans well- Masterplan known among German students Medizinstudium Advocac - Number of participants: N/A bvmd Europe 2020 as set by the y - Outcomes and indicators: change of the medical licensure act, german government establishment of the NKLM (catalogue of learning objectives) at the faculties - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected]

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- Objectives: Provide NMO members, partners, Ministry of Health with information how medical education should look like in Poland. how medical Educatio IFMSA- - Target group: not applicable education should Europe n Poland - Number of participants: 2 look like in Poland - Outcomes and indicators: policy statement - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: Open discussion of medical topics - Target group: Students, Public Campai IFMSA - Number of participants: all 8 faculties Medicafé Europe gning CZ - Outcomes and indicators: more than 1 event per faculty per semester. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: To gather data concerning the major challenges that students face in Medical Schools ANEM/ - Number of participants - not applied Educational Setting Researc PorMSI Europe National Studies h - Outcomes: the study was presented to the Portuguese Medical C Association as to raise awareness regarding the negative impacts that a large number of students can have - Email: [email protected] - Objectives: project focused on obtaining information how prepared are students for their future job. MedGAMES 2015 is the annual competition, which was organized by students. It is an idea of the students, who wanted to create a competition in which they would prove how they control the practical skills associated with the medical profession. Medical students were able to test what they have learnt so far. Participation is recommended for students of the 4th year and older. Contestants will compete in teams of three. Their skills were evaluated in different categories - there were more than 20 disciplines in which not only knowledge but also speed and teamwork were put to the test. This project is officially supported by Educatio Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and Teaching Centre and MedGAMES 2015 SloMSA Europe n personally by many teachers and doctors willing to participate in assessment of the teams. This idea is also supported by the international students and Association of Norwegian Students Abroad (ANSA). - Target group: med students - Number of participants: 50 contestants+30 in OC - Outcomes and indicators: students got feedback after every question/test/activity and therefore they know what are their strengths but also what are the fields they need to work harder on. Also- since it’s a project that we hope is going to be done annually, students can objectively quantify their advancement. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] Advocac - Objectives: renewal of the catalogue, defining the abilities and Renewal of SCLO swimsa Europe (Swiss Catalogue of y goals of medical students after their last year of study.

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Learning - Target group: Deans of Medical Schools and national Objectives), representatives for Medical Education. curricula to be - Number of Participants: 2. followed by all - Outcomes and indicators: New catalogue should be finished by Universities training 2018. medical students. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Objectives: Providing an environment to express their opinions in Medical Education about issues, , for Turkish Medical Students. - Target group: Medical Students - Number of participants: 80-100 TurkMSI - Outcomes and indicators: Realized 9th Medical Education Medical Education Campai C - Europe workshop with our project team on 19-20th December and meeting Workshop gning Turkey topic is Community Based Medical Education - medical education for community benefit from under-graduate to post-graduate. End of the workshop, participants join the moderation sessions and express their opinion about this topic for prepare the Result Statement. Project Team are writing the statement with participants’ inputs. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Goals: 1. Enable students to raise their voice regarding their education. 2. Raise awareness among medical students on their role within the university. 3. Awaken medical students to take on a more active role in their education. 4. Advocacy and campaigning - Objectives Campai HelMSI DREEM Europe 1. Data collection by medical students. gning C 2. Evaluation of the educational process. 3. Assessment of the educational conditions. - Target group: Medical Students - Number of participants: 798 - Outcomes and indicators: We are preparing a detailed abstract that will contain all relevant information and will be translated in English. - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected] - Target Group: Medical Students, General Public and also the media. Advocacy Initiative - - Number of Participants: around 200, this includes a number of Advocating for people who were engaged in the online discussion through the Medical Education Campai MMSA MMSA social media that has been used. in Malta & for the Europe gning Malta Sustainability of the - Outcomes & Indicators: We brought into the discussion the state of Maltese Medical the medical teaching system in Malta and the risks that are being School. imposed through the introduction of a second medical school in Malta. We consulted with a number of individuals in the government, medical students, medical associations and entities in the search for

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support to ensure that our medical school remains sustainable and remains autonomous in the best possible way. - Email: [email protected] / [email protected] - Objectives: Help coordinate global health education on a branch level to reach as many interested students as possible - Target group: university students of any discipline Global Health Short Educatio Medsin- - Number of participants: about 1000 Europe Course n UK - Outcomes and indicators: number of students attending, surveys of attendees, campaigns following the short course - Email of Activity Coordinator: [email protected], [email protected]